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Lust for Life (BD) [Blu-ray]
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Genre | Documentary, Drama, Historical |
Format | NTSC, Blu-ray |
Contributor | Madge Kennedy, Norman Corwin, Noel Purcell, Vincente Minnelli, Niall MacGinnis, Anthony Quinn, Pamela Brown, Irving Stone, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Pohlmann, John Houseman, Henry Daniell, Everett Sloane, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Naismith, Jill Bennett, James Donald, Jeanette Sterke See more |
Initial release date | 2015-02-03 |
Language | English |
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Lust for Life (BD) Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yellow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. “The pictures come to me as in a dream,” Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare. Winner of Golden Globe® and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a fi erce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind. The obsessed Van Gogh painted the way other men breathe, driving away family and friends, including artist Paul Gauguin (1956 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award® winner Anthony Quinn). Directed by Vincente Minnelli and saturated with the hues of Van Gogh’s sea, fi eld and sky, Lust for Life captures the ecstasy of art. And the agony of one man’s life.
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Item model number : WHV1000525144BR
- Director : Vincente Minnelli
- Media Format : NTSC, Blu-ray
- Run time : 2 hours and 2 minutes
- Release date : February 3, 2015
- Actors : Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane
- Producers : John Houseman
- Studio : Studio Distribution Services
- ASIN : B00O9K6ESE
- Writers : Norman Corwin
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #48,085 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #230 in Documentary (Movies & TV)
- #3,980 in Drama Blu-ray Discs
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I did obtain parent permission because of the drinking, smoking and fighting in the movie, the violence of the ear cutting is not shown graphically but there is a bit of blood, and he does shoot himself in the end. Mild language, Vincent says "hell" several times. They insinuate that his girlfriend is a prostitute but that seemed to go over their heads. Also, they do drink absinthe although most of them did not know what it was.
Their favorite part was of course when he cut off his ear. I think the acting is a little bit over the top, but I loved it. I would recommend this movie to teachers and anyone that is familiar with Van Gogh's paintings and wants to see them brought to life. The visual aspect alone makes it extremely worthwhile, and outweighs any heavy handed acting.
As soon as the titles appear on this recently released DVD you are aware of the superb transfer to disc. Written with Van Gogh's trademark thick impasto technique, they leap off the screen with 3-dimensional brilliance, breathtakingly alive. This is important because the film contains dozens of Van Gogh's most famous art works, all filmed from the originals in the possession of private collectors and museums. With their thick swirls of color and movement, the images are stunningly beautiful; making the DVD of the film a living art gallery. This was worth the price of the DVD for me. I wish there was some way each one of the paintings could have been bookmarked on the DVD to make them easier to find. Alas no. However, the other more disappointing aspect of this DVD release is that it does not contain the 30 minute long "Making of" documentary that often followed the showing of this film on Turner Classic Movies. This fine documentary showed how modern locations in Holland, Belgium and France were painstakingly converted into the late 19th Century locations actually painted by Van Gogh. It also showed how Kirk Douglas developed his characterization. It featured the process by which extras were chosen amongst local townspeople, including one old French woman who had actually known Van Gogh, had seen him paint and remarked upon Douglas' uncanny resemblance to the painter. It is a wonderful little film and its absence from this DVD is inexplicable. There is certainly room for it. The only extras are a 3 minute trailer and a fine commentary by Dr. Drew Casper, a film historian who gives a deeper, more academic analysis of the film than is usual for a commercial release not on Criterion or Kino. This was a missed opportunity by Turner Entertainment that makes no sense and is deeply disappointing.
The film is in color shot in widescreen with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 enhanced for widescreen TVs. It looks beautiful, almost 3-dimensionally vivid. It is 122 minutes in length. Sound is offered in Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround and sounds glorious. Miklos Rozsa's music sounds especially alive. Languages for menus are English and French. Subtitles are in English, French and Spanish. The region code is NTSC 1.
This is a film definitely worth getting for its beauty and its excellence. Its lack of appropriate extras is disappointing but that is tempered by gratitude for finally having this wonderful, deeply moving film available on DVD. I strongly recommend this DVD release for that fact alone.
Mike Birman
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Although this is not the place or time to consider them, and despite the great similarities, they were not entirely like this. Vincent was highly-intelligent, multi-lingual and someone who considered his paintings carefully, albeit with a lustiness and enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, the yellow house in which they lived was demolished many years ago and there is virtually nothing in Arles by which to remember him, except being surrounded by images which remind one of his paintings. It is fascinating to consider that Van Gogh features five time in the most expensive painting list and his "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" is the fourth most expensive painting ever sold - $82.5 million in 1990 ($144 million today).
Buy "Lust for Life", enjoy it and meet some facets of Vincent.
Reviewed in Mexico on March 11, 2020